Daylight, Moonlight: Live in Yakushiji

Performer: Kitaro
Producer: Kitaro; Gary Barlough
Distributor: IDN Distribution

Notes: Personnel includes: Yakushiji Monks (chant vocals); Yayoi Sakiyama (violin); Shinji Ebihara, Keiko Takahashi (keyboards). Recorded live at Yakushiji Temple, Nara, Japan in 2001. This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players. Personnel includes: Yakushiji Monks (chant vocals); Yayoi Sakiyama violin); Shinji Ebihara, Keiko Takahashi (keyboards). Recorded live at Yakushiji Temple, Nara, Japan in 2001. In the seventh century CE Genjo Sanzo walked the length of the Silk Road from Japan to India and back, bringing with him the scriptures that introduced Buddhism to Japan and China. On this live two-disc album, recorded at the monastery where Genjo's ashes are harbored, Kitaro attempts to capture the passions that sustained the monk on his long journeys. The album opens with the somber, unadorned chanting of the Yakushiji monks. As with most of his studio albums, DAYLIGHT, MOONLIGHT finds Kitaro effortlessly bridging the traditional and the forward-thinking, particularly on songs such as "Hazimari/Sozo" and "Estrella." The standout track, "Mercury," originally featured on his Grammy Award-winning album THINKING OF YOU, finds his flute gliding over a sparse industrial landscape. In all, a strong set that lives up to the story of the monk who inspired it.

New Age Voice (01/03, pp.12-13) - "...DAYLIGHT, MOONLIGHT stands out as important, serious music at a time when the rest of the world is bellying up to the buddha bar while singing yoga chants..."

Born Masanori Takahashi, Japanese keyboard wizard Kitaro first came to prominence in the early 1970s as a member of the band Far Out, which would quickly change its name to Far East Family Band, one of Japan's first and most legendary psychedelic groups. On his own, Kitaro produces pioneering New Age synthesizer music that is atmospheric and meditative, with simple melodies unfolding at unhurried tempos. His world-famous TV soundtrack SILK ROAD led to soundtracks for other films and even a Broadway show, in addition to numerous successful Kitaro albums proper.

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